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Friday, May 11, 2018

Soros Buying San Diego DA Race - Matthew Vadum

by Matthew Vadum

Just another day in the radical transformation of America.

Leftist billionaire George Soros is injecting big money into a
San Diego district attorney race as part of his larger effort to install
extremist prosecutors across America who will refuse to enforce
inconvenient laws that liberals and progressives don’t like.

Soros, who turns 88 in August, has been underwriting district attorney
races across America in an effort to dismantle the criminal justice
system, empty the prisons, and sabotage the enforcement of immigration
laws. Soros supports state and local efforts to resist U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and wants to cripple police in order to
advance the neo-Marxist abstraction known as social justice that
simplistically breaks the world down into race, class, and sex or
gender. Radicals claim that American laws and institutions are
inherently corrupt and that these systems protect, for example, wealthy,
white, native-born, non-disabled males at the expense of everyone else.

Getting people who share Soros’s worldview into public office at every
level is key to promoting his ugly vision of how America, which he
calls “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order,” should look.

Months ago Soros saturation-bombed his Open Society Foundations
philanthropy with an $18 billion donation, likely guaranteeing OSF will
remain one of the most important players in left-wing activism for
decades to come. According to the New York Times, this was “one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation.” (Click here for a brief video primer on Soros narrated by yours truly. Click here for an in-depth Discover The Networks profile of Soros.)

So far Soros has pumped $1.5 million into the San Diego County,
Calif., prosecutor’s race to support the candidacy of radical
left-winger Geneviéve Jones-Wright, the Democrat candidate and deputy
public defender in the county, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Joe Schoffstall.

On May 3 Soros’s money was deposited into the California Justice &
Public Safety PAC, a political action committee created as a vehicle
for his assault on law and order in the county that borders Tijuana,
Mexico. Some of the members of the so-called caravan of Central
Americans led by Pueblos Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders, in
English) have sought asylum at the busy San Ysidro Point of Entry in the
county.

The PAC is administered by Whitney Tymas, a longtime
treasurer of Soros PACs. From 2011 to 2014, she was director of the
Prosecution and Racial Justice Program at the pro-criminal Vera
Institute of Justice. Vera has received close to $6.7 million from OSF.
The PAC has so far spent $194,884 on TV ads, $100,000 on digital ads,
and $107,575.60 on campaign literature and mailings in recent days,
according to Schoffstall.

Local elections for district
attorney are relatively low-key, small-scale affairs that rarely see the
kind of money Soros has been throwing around. By pouring millions of
dollars into the campaigns of various extreme-left district attorney
candidates across America, Soros has provided his preferred candidates
huge financial advantages over their rivals.

And his money has brought results.

Soros money helped to knock off Bexar County (San Antonio), Texas,
District Attorney Nico LaHood, a Democrat who opposes sanctuary cities
and describes himself as “a conservative guy.” The billionaire’s cash
also helped Kim Ogg unseat incumbent Republican Devon Anderson to become
DA in Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston. Ogg promised a
“significant culture change,” including greater leniency in marijuana
possession cases and making it easier for criminal defendants to make
bail.

According to a Daily Signal analysis, in the 2016 election cycle
Soros shelled out almost $11 million in 12 DA races. Democrat candidates
backed by Soros ended up winning in 10 of those dozen contests. Soros
also funded district attorney candidates in Florida, Illinois,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico.

According to Schoffstall,

Soros operates similarly in every city: His PAC treasurer will
establish a committee as an avenue for him to pour his money to back his
preferred candidate. Once the money is parked in the PAC, independent
expenditures are made in support of his candidate and against their
opponent. Soros then refunds himself any excess money at the conclusion
of the race and the PAC is dissolved.

And just
how radical is San Diego’s Jones-Wright? She is so hostile to law
enforcement that she may as well have been recruited from the ranks of
Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or Occupy Wall Street.

The current
DA, Summer Stephan (R), launched a website called ThreatToSanDiego that
provides a laundry list of leftist positions embraced by Jones-Wright.
The site states that "anti-law enforcement $$$ is coming into San
Diego," and highlights quotations from Soros, such as his statement that
he has "always harbored an exaggerated view of self importance" and
that he thinks of himself as "some sort of god."

Stephan
campaign strategist Jason Roe told the Washington Free Beacon that
Jones-Wright "has fully embraced his [Soros's] positions on
decriminalizing sex crimes, closing jails and prisons, and eliminating
bail." Roe added that the Democrat candidate is "committed to not
enforcing what she calls ‘quality of life crimes' like breaking and
entering and other things that are not necessarily violent crimes."

Jones-Wright made a guest appearance at the shadowy, Soros-cofounded
Democracy Alliance's grant-making conference last fall, participating in
a panel discussion titled, "Prosecutor Races – Winning Big in 2018?"
The Democracy Alliance is a donors’ collaborative whose members secretly
fund left-wing political infrastructure projects, such as think tanks,
leadership institutes, and activist groups. Democracy Alliance president
Gara LaMarche, a former Soros lieutenant, wrote in a letter to
conference attendees that President Trump's victory a year ago was "the
most cataclysmic election of modern history."

Jones-Wright
refused to comment on what she did at the Democracy Alliance shindig but
told the Free Beacon she was "thrilled" to have won the backing of "one
of the most generous and progressive donors in the country."

"People talk a lot about the need to close the gap between the rich and
the poor, but George Soros puts his money where his values are," she
said.

"It brings a megaphone to the message of true justice
and allow communities that have been marginalized by the status quo to
have a shot at representation," she said. "Criminal justice reform is
getting the attention it deserves as a life and death issue for
communities."

On this point Jones-Wright is correct. Criminal
justice reform is indeed a life and death issue for communities, but not
in the way she means it.